Dacotah Trail #6 - Old ET Barnum Iron Works Traditional Cache

Located in Veterans Memorial Park in Egan SD.

#6 in a series of caches with easy on off access of Highway 34 in South Dakota. You are looking for a camo'd altoids tin, with a Log and pencil, room for possible small trading items.

Highway 34 the Old Dacotah Trail... Long before the white man, an indian trail from the sanctuary at Pipestone Quarry to the "Three Rivers of the Sioux" near Ft. Thompson passed closely by. The whitemans first road in Dakota, the Ft. Ridgely and south Pass Wagon Road, forded the James 7 miles North in 1857. The rock ford and a monument mark the site. December 1862 the "March to Moscow" relief expedition from Minnesota to Ft. Thompson passed by "Mazeppa Hill" 2.5 miles NE now called Big Mound. In 1865 the "Big Cheyenne Wagon Road" Minnesota to Montana crossed the James at Big Mound.

In order to claim this as a find, one must go to the coordinates, find the cache and sign the log.....

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